MSC.Software Announces 2005 Releases of SimOffice VPD Products
September 28 2004 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
MSC.Software Announces 2005 Releases of SimOffice VPD Products New
Functionality Gives Product Development Engineers Improved
Interoperability and Productivity SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 28
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MSC.Software Corp. (NYSE:MNS), the
leading global provider of virtual product development (VPD)
products including simulation software and services, today
announced the release of MSC.Software SimOffice products
MSC.Nastran 2005, MSC.Patran 2005, MSC.ADAMS 2005, MSC.Marc 2005
and MSC.Dytran 2005. The 2005 versions of the core MSC.Software VPD
products are the first set of products released under the SimOffice
brand. MSC.Software's SimOffice is a VPD environment based upon
scaleable, interoperable products that help engineers in every
industry solve complex product development challenges by testing
integrated virtual prototypes within a single, unified framework.
The SimOffice product line includes all of the stand-alone products
from MSC.Software including the industry's most well respected
tools for performing virtual testing of deformation, stress,
fatigue, motion, hydraulics, controls, crash, thermal, vibration,
acoustics, and other engineering disciplines. By utilizing virtual
analysis and testing products and techniques in concert with
physical prototype testing, manufacturers can reduce the time and
costs associated with product development and reduce the number of
costly physical prototypes required to ensure product performance.
"The simultaneous release of our core products, together with key
enhancements to their interoperability, highlights our vision for
providing the industry's best and most well-integrated virtual
product development environment," says Frank Perna, chairman and
chief executive officer of MSC.Software. "SimOffice is built upon
the foundation of our industry-leading software products, enabled
by the MSC.MasterKey licensing system, and will evolve over time to
be the industry's best, open architecture, virtual product
development environment. Our customers tell us loudly and clearly
that they want integrated product functionality, ease of use and
flexibility to use whatever tool they need, whenever they need it.
SimOffice is our answer to these demands and we are confident that
customers making investments in VPD technologies will take
advantage of the robust, integrated capabilities of SimOffice." The
synchronized launch of SimOffice underscores MSC.Software's
strategy to provide customers with the best, most well-integrated
VPD tools for every step of the product development process. Some
of the highlights of the 2005 releases include: * MSC.Nastran 2005:
The flagship member of the SimOffice product family delivers new
functionality and improved modeling, analysis and post-processing
capability focused on ease-of-use, speed, and accuracy in nonlinear
simulation; optimization; generalized dynamics; rotor dynamics;
acoustics; noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH); and extended
element and loads and boundary condition technology. Other
enhancements include increased robustness in the Implicit Nonlinear
product module (SOL 600); new ACMS (automated component mode
synthesis) enhancements focused on "matrix domain" decomposition,
which greatly improves the performance and handling of complex
geometry over the "geometry domain" decomposition method; and
improved MSC.Patran, MSC. ADAMS and MSC.Marc integration for
greater interoperability and extensibility. Pre-release
capabilities in MSC.Nastran 2005 include the introduction of the
Explicit Nonlinear product module (SOL 700) for simulating crash
(impact, penetration, and crush), the Topology Optimization product
module for design optimization based on component topology, and an
Arbitrary Beam Section modeling capability for improved accuracy in
complex beam cross-section definitions. For more information on
MSC.Nastran and to learn more about what's new with MSC.Nastran
2005, please visit http://nastran.mscsoftware.com/. * MSC.Patran
2005: More accurately import various types of CAD geometry; better
organize your CAD data with automatic creation of Patran Groups
from CAD Layers; reduced mesh creation time with enhancements to
Advanced Surface Mesher; more easily solve a broad class of
problems using the improved interoperability with MSC.Marc,
MSC.Dytran, MSC.Nastran, and LS-DYNA; gain a better understanding
of Finite Element results data with combined component plots. For
more information on MSC.Patran and to learn more about what's new
with MSC.Patran 2005, please visit http://patran.mscsoftware.com/.
* MSC.ADAMS 2005: New ADAMS/Engine Piston module for understanding
secondary piston motion; belt and chain solutions in ADAMS/Engine
are 4 to 12 times faster; breakthrough productivity gains for
complex durability and solid contact models using new 2nd order
Hilber-Hughes- Taylor integrator; critical stresses can now be
obtained at least a factor of 3 times faster with ADAMS/Durability
hotspots computation; improved integration of MSC.EASY5 and
MSC.ADAMS as well as MSC.Nastran and MSC.ADAMS enable a more
complete virtual prototype; designs can be improved and optimized
for NVH performance due to expanded integration between
ADAMS/Vibration and ADAMS/Insight. For more information on
MSC.ADAMS and to learn more about what's new with MSC.ADAMS 2005,
please visit http://adams.mscsoftware.com/. * MSC.Dytran 2005: New
Adaptive Multiple Eulerian Domain technology for solving complex
fluid-structure interaction problems such as aircraft
crashworthiness on water, bird strike simulation with multiple
impacts, shaped charge simulation and weapons design, ship
collision and underwater explosions, blast resistance and
survivability, and pouring of liquids into containers; new
elements, constraints, and material models for MSC.Dytran LS-DYNA,
as well as expanded support for all major UNIX, Linux, and Windows
platforms for greater speed and scalability under a single analysis
environment. For more information on MSC.Dytran and to learn more
about what's new with MSC.Dytran 2005, please visit
http://dytran.mscsoftware.com/. * MSC.Marc 2005: Improved contact
and friction modeling, easier control of loading history and
material property definition with new multivariable table input,;
faster, more accurate prediction of key powertrain design
parameters using bolt modeling and analysis of large engine block
models; tighter integration with MSC.Nastran, MSC.Patran, and
MSC.ADAMS. For more information on MSC.Marc and to learn more about
what's new with MSC.Marc 2005, please visit
http://marc.mscsoftware.com/. For more information on SimOffice,
please visit http://simoffice.mscsoftware.com/ and download the
free White Paper-SimOffice: The Promise of Virtual Product
Development SimOffice Webinar Series To highlight both the
SimOffice strategy and "What's New" in each of the SimOffice 2005
product families, MSC.Software is hosting two public Webinars on
Thursday, October 7. The SimOffice Webinars will take place at
8:00am Pacific Time (PT) and again at 6:00pm PT (or 10:00am Tokyo
time on Friday, October 8). In addition, five Webinars highlighting
"What's New" in each of the SimOffice 2005 product families will be
available for convenient replay on the MSC.Software Website
following the live Webinar on October 7. To register or to find out
more about these Webinars, please visit
http://www.webinars.mscsoftware.com/. About MSC.Software
Corporation MSC.Software (NYSE:MNS) is the leading global provider
of simulation software and services, that helps companies make
money, save time and reduce costs associated with designing and
testing manufactured products. MSC.Software works with thousands of
companies in hundreds of industries to develop better products
faster by utilizing information technology, software, services and
systems. MSC.Software employs more than 1400 people in 23
countries. For additional information about MSC.Software's products
and services, please visit http://www.mscsoftware.com/. DATASOURCE:
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